The Escape from Afghanistan

As the Taliban took over Afghanistan, there was a desperate scramble to evacuate Western citizens and allies. Kabul airport saw scenes of chaos, as thousands of Afghans strove to flee the Taliban.
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When Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, only a lucky few Afghans escaped. Osman, an Afghan interpreter, was evacuated thanks to a Visa from the Australian government - but it took years for the paperwork to be processed: 'we were telling them the Taliban were coming near the city, that we needed to leave this country as soon as possible but we were not hearing anything back'. Osman's former supervisor was not able to escape - he lives in constant fear of Taliban reprisal. 'The threat of the Taliban is everywhere', he says. Despite assisting the Australian government, he has not heard back about his visa: 'I think I have sent them 32 emails, but no answer from them'.
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[@joebag6624]

No-one saw it coming,,,,, EVERYONE DID !!!!!!!

[@donaldduck8245]

Joe shut up please delete ur irrelevant COMMENT thank U very much

[@ClipzIRE]

Waiting on this one we need more Afghan videos feels like media are not reporting on it anymore

[@nazuddin6346]

Thank you journey man For Showing the truth Always. Happy new year To all journey man Team 💞💫🇬🇧 Best wishes from London. Many thanks to jason( former Captain of Australia Army 👨‍✈️ Best wishes to tim And those like him. And many others those Helped Americans and Australians they get helped And they dont help them Those risk there lives America and Australia Shame

[@SexiSelextivSunShine]

Just devastating! 🙏🏻❤️

[@Kemite_Gaming]

Vietnam 2.0 they should of learned from vietnam to never help the invading forces should of help your folks out

[@sarahatheer2795]

Til every countryman rise against the slavery of the corrupted people, nothing will change….. I pray for those afghans

[@JR-gc5ef]

Sorry. Absolutely BS. They are not being lashed nor being attacked. And I'm sat here in Kabul right now.

[@JR-gc5ef]

@Black Royal Society of Philomathic Studies I can't do live stream but I was walking in a neighborhood in Kabul yesterday afternoon which I'll post a cut video of. Even my Afghan colleagues are telling me that they are polite at road checkpoints and they've been polite to me. It's strange as one of the few foreigners walking around - it seems so normal - unlike the previous government.

[@JR-gc5ef]

@Black Royal Society of Philomathic Studies kzbin.info/www/bejne/majXo6Okl6aKnMU

[@abozarbayat3903]

The fact is people who really get warned by taliban never ask for help, they choose to fight and die.

[@owaisinus]

The interpreters are very lucky that the U.S. government allowed them to board their planes which is strange since many Afghan interpreters who worked for the U.S. government haven't yet been evacuated or got their visa applications approved. It is Australian government's job to handle the asylum cases of their interpreters not another country.

[@andrem4877]

The Taliban outlawed bacha Bazi. The US and their allies supported the guys who brought back bacha Bazi in Afghanistan! After I learned about that fact I started seriously doubting if we're really the good guys over there, clearly we are not!

[@tonycondegnimustafa435]

Also dont forget about the Taliban eradication of 90% of the poppy plants that is until America came back to guard them and to make sure that not 1 pod of this plant was harmed

[@andrem4877]

@@tonycondegnimustafa435 exactly! And did you know in Iraq what they would call our soldiers? They would call us "the Jews"! Everyone on the planet knows the score except the average American citizen. We are just an open wallet to them, a checking account to further the Zionist agenda. It makes you wonder, were we even the good guys in WW2?

[@jjrossitee]

Maybe the real lesson is how you get effed working working with some allies.

[@zer0coolninja887]

Update on this man

[@floridasoldat]

Oh, hell yeah. Looking forward to this one. Let’s goooo 👉😁👈

[@OsoCaliforniano]

Im sorry. Im not trying to take away from this story but damn girl. Those jeans

[@sendthis9480]

You know kiddo…it’s ok to NOT say somethings. Sometimes things should stay in your head. Begging for “kewl” points by acting dismissive is extremely pathetic. Grow up.

[@tylergriegos993]

@@sendthis9480 I advise you to do the same. Just as u dont like her reply i dont like yours. Everyone can say what they want, accepting that.. Is the hardest park

[@sendthis9480]

@@tylergriegos993 Your grammar is atrocious! Good luck.

[@tylergriegos993]

@@sendthis9480 Your life is atrocious. Good luck!

[@sendthis9480]

@@tylergriegos993 Lame deflection, coward.

[@barrywillis6888]

Taliban never cut and run .

[@SyndicateBastard]

His English is great

[@abozarbayat3903]

It is a big shame how australian and the west escaped. what a big shame. how there citizen trust the army.

[@kinny2098]

Why do they all have rugs on their car dashboards, anyone?

[@alexcarter8807]

In very hot places, dashboard covers keep the dashboard from overheating and warping, and they help the plastic stay in much nicer condition anyway. There are parts of the US like the Southwest where they make a ton of sense, also either steering wheel covers or driving gloves because the steering wheel gets almost too hot to hold otherwise.

[@janesmith9024]

We a tiny nation here in the UK have taken 15,000 of them even tough we have 6m people waiting for NHS treatment and few houses and not much land., Australia has taken on 4000. it is totally unfair. We have 1m illegals in the UK already. I am now in an area of London where no one is like I am without my having moved.

[@kaleheidke5232]

No country should take any...!

[@PureHeavenlySultan]

The majority of Muslims in your country are from Pakistan, Bangladesh, also Asians from India, China, and Philippines. Let’s not forget the Eastern Europeans, Africans. And your worried about 15K Afghans?

[@kaleheidke5232]

I sure am...! Our kids our families first last and always..... Our futures and families past and present... Our schools are full our hospitals overloaded. Elderly starving homeless. Disabled mentally ill. Water food electricity..... 150,000,00 + 15,000 in 2021/2022.. Millions of Aussies starving struggling homeless.. look after Australian born and bread people ! Millions of reason why not.!

[@sawjar]

Damn this reporter is so attractive!

[@thomasr5121]

This Jordyn woman needs to back off giving these people a false sense of hope, if she had put me on that bus then later tell me there's nothing we can do, it would not have been a good day for her. Better off let these people stay and rebuild their lives. Coalition forces went into Afghanistan to help the people but obviously they didn't want the help or else this would have been a different outcome. Lesson learned from this...Don't betray your country/people. If you want a better life fight for it , don't EXPECT it.

[@extremeresponsibility4325]

I agree. Respect. The Afghans made the right choice for themselves. The Afghans walked away in 10 minutes from 20 years of investment when it was time to do the work. It's their freewill to live the Taliban life. Respect.

[@amiriqbal7583]

Lesson= never Be a Collaborator of a foreign Force who invaded ur country.

[@concentratecorner1744]

was that lady the one who jammed up the gates for the full day and ruined a bunch of evacs because they showed up with 3 busses worth of people that the gov had no idea about and hadnt vetted etc....

[@erinjensen2799]

Really??

[@concentratecorner1744]

@@erinjensen2799 yea their bus debacle ended up causing the gates to be closed for a full day and NO ONE got on any planes because of it. They had already plans to move in high value people to get them onto a plane, and then these dorks showed up with 3 busses of randoms they picked up off the street etc, didnt vet, didnt have any of the proper papers etc and so on. As you can tell they pretty much got them on the bus and drove up. The lady has no idea what shes doing.

[@erinjensen2799]

@@concentratecorner1744 pretty crappy. They could have gotten sooooo many more people out of there that were SUPPOSE to be and had correct documentation. Thanks for clearing that up for me:)

[@concentratecorner1744]

@@erinjensen2799 no problem. Yea if they would of even just coordinated with officials it would of been possible. I remember it was pretty big news on social media etc by all the ex special forces guys calling them out for fucking up the gates for the day

[@concentratecorner1744]

@@erinjensen2799 also it was during a period when the gates / airport would only be open for a set period of time due to threats from isis to conduct suicide bombings. (They ultimately did just that)

[@jimparsons9454]

This comment section is truly disheartening. Where is your humanity? Have you no sympathy for your fellow man? Whatever happens to humanity we deserve it 100%.

[@extremeresponsibility4325]

That's right. Respect. The Afghans made the right choice for themselves. The Afghans walked away in 10 minutes from 20 years of investment when it was time to do the work. It's their freewill to live the Taliban life. Respect.

[@Bedroom_Musician]

SHAME ON AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES FOR LEAVING BEHIND PEOPLE WHO HELP THEM WHEN THEY NEED A HELPING HAND AND TURNING A DEAF EAR WHEN THEY CRY OUT FOR THEIR HELP ESPECIALLY PEOPLE WHO HAVE HELP THEM AND FIGHT FOR THEIR CAUSES SIDE BY SIDE. SHAME ON AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE

[@kaleheidke5232]

They asked for help it was there war.!!!

[@David-og7di]

Oz took 4000

[@Knight_riderxyz]

​@@kaleheidke5232they ask for help it's their war😂? Nobody invited you to invade afghanistan,you went there for poppy and to stop the sunni version of Iranian Revolution( tehreek e taliban) and to destabilize Pakistan and force them to give up their nuclear weapons and to keep eye on Iran's nuclear program. But failed👎

[@abbasali4630]

This is what makes the U.S and other countries so great that they even helped escape some of the war time allies of Australia who were left behind by them.

[@karenalger6750]

Who kept the innocent Afghans protected that Australian forces murdered!? Pretty sure everyone has seen the videos and war crimes committed by Australian troops. War crimes have been admitted to by their own military!

[@JohnnyXanax]

I know Australia does not have the military might of the US and the UK. As a vet of that fucking pointless war, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United States, and the United Kingdom could have done a little more of an effort to evacuate Afghan civilians to the West. Easier said than done, however. Packing people into our fright planes was a fucking nightmare. As we flew to Germany, as I was standing guard, it as hard to see all those blank faces of what awaits them next. The flight to Dulles, at least for me, I was just happy to go home. If at least for a while.

[@BinaryzeroNYC]

Fuking sad

[@mukhumor]

The Taliban wolves are back... again.

[@extremeresponsibility4325]

Respect. The Afghans made the right choice for themselves. The Afghans walked away in 10 minutes from 20 years of investment when it was time to do the work. It's their freewill to live the Taliban life. Respect.

[@David-og7di]

been there? seen what Talib life is like? probably not.

[@extremeresponsibility4325]

@@David-og7di we are a military family so I know what you mean. It still time for Afghans to own it.

[@RK18771]

Australia should make a documentary on "escaping Australia" since it has become a penal colony again.

[@liamthomas8029]

That must be a luxurious penal colony with all the modern amenities, healthcare and many magnificent tourist attractions.

[@RK18771]

@@liamthomas8029 yes modern prisons have modern amenities and healthcare! Get with the times.

[@liamthomas8029]

@@RK18771 Only in Nordic nations. Try living in a Madagascar prison for once. Are there tourist attractions? It must only feel like a penal colony for the “poor” elites with an excess of money that living in a beautiful, wealthy nation with everything available doesn’t satisfy them.

[@RK18771]

@@liamthomas8029 Australians cant come and go as they please so yes it is a prison right now

[@ifp748]

That’s what happens when you willingly had over ur guns to the Government 😂

[@noelgibson5956]

They must flee because they 'helped us'. My question is:- why did you choose to get involved when you knew the forces couldn't remain forever? What did you think the end result would be? The Coalition forces should never have been there, and you shouldn't have put your hand up. Just......... don't get involved!

[@Ibadkhan]

He thought that the "World super power" would change the security situations in Afghanistan but sadly that didn't become the case.

[@noelgibson5956]

@@Ibadkhan He thought if he helps America, he can move to America after the pullout. Once in America, he'll become an activist speaking up against 'injustice'.......... something he wouldn't do in Afghanistan.

[@zabikerimi2024]

👑Taliban zindabad 💪👑💪👑💪👑💪👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏☝️👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@sebastiannowak5192]

US make this mysery.The should take all People to America.

[@sairahmadkhairzada2302]

Died to a d f and I d f

[@MrSpookyLover]

should just do one on the covid communist state of Australia which effectively barred all citizens from leaving throughout 2021, introduced new lockdowns in Victoria, NSW when a few cases happened and is working now as a proud penal colony

[@_Ossoarrogant-jojo-world_300k]

thats a hypocrite he should have stayed and builded up the country i wouild have taken my mom and made may way to live there a life without tyrani that we beeing opressed her by nato and vaksine tyrants i wil send an email to afghanistan and ask to get citisenship for my mother and me

[@presstifa4925]

#BIDENHARRIS

[@SyndicateBastard]

It was Trumpy boy who signed an agreement with with Talibs in Doha, practically recognizing them

[@cloudedanyhow3593]

Let’s go, Brandon!

[@pawaneshpandey3177]

हर हर मोदी

[@mr.pradorobledo]

Tve Prvd, from VFG. (Cat)Dead; Gonegandia - Donee, Down (Kitten). #AOXQ #DOV3

[@mr.pradorobledo]

Northwestern Territories, #Cats.